Contributors to GCC

The GCC project would like to thank its many contributors. Without them the
project would not have been nearly as successful as it has been. Any omissions
in this list are accidental. Feel free to contact
law@redhat.com or gerald@pfeifer.com if you have been left
out or some of your contributions are not listed. Please keep this list in
alphabetical order.

Analog Devices helped implement the support for complex data types
and iterators.

John David Anglin for threading-related fixes and improvements to
libstdc++-v3, and the HP-UX port.

James van Artsdalen wrote the code that makes efficient use of
the Intel 80387 register stack.

Abramo and Roberto Bagnara for the SysV68 Motorola 3300 Delta Series
port.

Alasdair Baird for various bug fixes.

Giovanni Bajo for analyzing lots of complicated C++ problem reports.

Peter Barada for his work to improve code generation for new
ColdFire cores.

Neil Booth for work on cpplib, lang hooks, debug hooks and other
miscellaneous clean-ups.

Steven Bosscher for integrating the GNU Fortran front end into GCC and for
contributing to the tree-ssa branch.

Eric Botcazou for fixing middle- and backend bugs left and right.

Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various
improvements to the infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill
front end implementation. Initial implementations of
cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library (libg++)
maintainer. Dreaming up, designing and implementing much of GCJ.

Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe.

Don Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions.

Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill.

Paul Brook for work on the ARM architecture and maintaining GNU Fortran.

Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems.

Christian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination.

Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes.

Joerg Brunsmann for Java compiler hacking and help with the GCJ FAQ.

Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee.

Craig Burley for leadership of the G77 Fortran effort.

Stephan Buys for contributing Doxygen notes for libstdc++.

Paolo Carlini for libstdc++ work: lots of efficiency improvements to
the C++ strings, streambufs and formatted I/O, hard detective work on
the frustrating localization issues, and keeping up with the problem reports.

R. Kelley Cook for making GCC buildable from a read-only directory as
well as other miscellaneous build process and documentation clean-ups.

Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bug fixing.

Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind
the scenes hacking.

Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1.

Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port.

Paul Dale for his work to add uClinux platform support to the
m68k backend.

Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs
that print a copy of their source.

Russell Davidson for fstream and stringstream fixes in libstdc++.

Bud Davis for work on the G77 and GNU Fortran compilers.

Mo DeJong for GCJ and libgcj bug fixes.

DJ Delorie for the DJGPP port, build and libiberty maintenance,
various bug fixes, and the M32C and MeP ports.

Arnaud Desitter for helping to debug GNU Fortran.

Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions to G++, contributions and
maintenance of GCC diagnostics infrastructure, libstdc++-v3,
including valarray<>, complex<>, maintaining the numerics library
(including that pesky <limits> :-) and keeping up-to-date anything
to do with numbers.

Ulrich Drepper for his work on glibc, testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99
support, CFG dumping support, etc., plus support of the C++ runtime
libraries including for all kinds of C interface issues, contributing and
maintaining complex<>, sanity checking and disbursement, configuration
architecture, libio maintenance, and early math work.

Zdenek Dvorak for a new loop unroller and various fixes.

Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM.

David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee, ongoing work
with the RS6000/PowerPC port, help cleaning up Haifa loop changes,
doing the entire AIX port of libstdc++ with his bare hands, and for
ensuring GCC properly keeps working on AIX.

Kevin Ediger for the floating point formatting of num_put::do_put in
libstdc++.

Phil Edwards for libstdc++ work including configuration hackery,
documentation maintainer, chief breaker of the web pages, the occasional
iostream bug fix, and work on shared library symbol versioning.

Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC.

Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements, and for libstdc++
configuration support for locales and fstream-related fixes.

Vadim Egorov for libstdc++ fixes in strings, streambufs, and iostreams.

Christian Ehrhardt for dealing with bug reports.

Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its
own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf.

Revital Eres for work on the PowerPC 750CL port.

Marc Espie for OpenBSD support.

Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r,
and SPARC work.

Christopher Faylor for his work on the Cygwin port and for caring and
feeding the gcc.gnu.org box and saving its users tons of spam.

Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.

Ivan Fontes Garcia for the Portuguese translation of the GCJ FAQ.

Peter Gerwinski for various bug fixes and the Pascal front end.

Kaveh R. Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee, amazing
work to make `-W -Wall -W* -Werror' useful, and continuously
testing GCC on a plethora of platforms. Kaveh extends his gratitude to
the CAIP Center at Rutgers
University for providing him with computing resources to work on Free
Software since the late 1980s.

John Gilmore for a donation to the FSF earmarked improving GNU Java.

Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.

Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite,
multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long
support, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction
via the steering committee.

Anthony Green for his -Os contributions, the moxie port, and
Java front end work.

Richard Guenther for his ongoing middle-end contributions and bug fixes
and for release management.

Ron Guilmette implemented the protoize and unprotoize
tools, the support for Dwarf symbolic debugging information, and much of
the support for System V Release 4. He has also worked heavily on the
Intel 386 and 860 support.

Mostafa Hagog for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS) and post reload GCSE.

Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new
warnings and assorted bug fixes.

Andrew Haley for his amazing Java compiler and library efforts.

Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.

Michael Hayes for various thankless work he's done trying to get
the c30/c40 ports functional. Lots of loop and unroll improvements and
fixes.

Dara Hazeghi for wading through myriads of target-specific bug reports.

Kate Hedstrom for staking the G77 folks with an initial testsuite.

Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC, alpha, ia32, and ia64 work, loop
opts, and generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for
years, flow rewrite and lots of further stuff, including reviewing
tons of patches.

Aldy Hernandez for working on the PowerPC port, SIMD support, and
various fixes.

Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed
the support for the Sony NEWS machine.

Kazu Hirata for caring and feeding the Renesas H8/300 port and various fixes.

Katherine Holcomb for work on GNU Fortran.

Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots
of testing and bug fixing, particularly of GCC configury code.

Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.

Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.

Falk Hueffner for working on C and optimization bug reports.

Bernardo Innocenti for his m68k work, including merging of
ColdFire improvements and uClinux support.

Christian Iseli for various bug fixes.

Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.

Lee Iverson for random fixes and MIPS testing.

Andreas Jaeger for testing and benchmarking of GCC and various bug fixes.

Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well
as lots of bug fixes and test cases, and for improving the Java build
system.

Tim Josling for the sample language treelang based originally on Richard
Kenner's “toy” language.

Nicolai Josuttis for additional libstdc++ documentation.

Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.

Steven G. Kargl for work on GNU Fortran.

David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS.

Ryszard Kabatek for many, many libstdc++ bug fixes and optimizations of
strings, especially member functions, and for auto_ptr fixes.

Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux
and his automatic regression tester.

Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with G++ and for a lot of early work
in just about every part of libstdc++.

Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the
MIL-STD-1750A.

Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research
Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC
Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for
instruction attributes. He also made changes to better support RISC
processors including changes to common subexpression elimination,
strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition
code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer
elimination and delay slot scheduling. Richard Kenner was also the
head maintainer of GCC for several years.

Mumit Khan for various contributions to the Cygwin and Mingw32 ports and
maintaining binary releases for Microsoft Windows hosts, and for massive libstdc++
porting work to Cygwin/Mingw32.

Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.

Mark Klein for PA improvements.

Thomas Koenig for various bug fixes.

Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.

Benjamin Kosnik for his G++ work and for leading the libstdc++-v3 effort.

Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions
68020 system.

Asher Langton and Mike Kumbera for contributing Cray pointer support
to GNU Fortran, and for other GNU Fortran improvements.

Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the
entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases,
handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have
fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking.

Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping
with analysis and improvements of x86 performance.

Victor Leikehman for work on GNU Fortran.

Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.

Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for C++ improvements including template as template
parameter support, and many C++ fixes.

Warren Levy for tremendous work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and
random work on the Java front end.

Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the MIPS CPU.

Oskar Liljeblad for hacking on AWT and his many Java bug reports and
patches.

Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.

Chen Liqin for various S+core related fixes/improvement, and for
maintaining the S+core port.

Weiwen Liu for testing and various bug fixes.

Manuel López-Ibáñez for improving -Wconversion and
many other diagnostics fixes and improvements.

Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and
runtime libraries.

H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86
bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the GNU/Linux ports working.

Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers.

Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system,
various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc.

Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC hacking
improvements to compile-time performance, overall knowledge and
direction in the area of instruction scheduling, and design and
implementation of the automaton based instruction scheduler.

Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.

Philip Martin for lots of libstdc++ string and vector iterator fixes and
improvements, and string clean up and testsuites.

Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran
maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast.

Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services
on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine—mail, web
services, ftp services, etc etc. Doing all this work on scrap paper and
the backs of envelopes would have been... difficult.

Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her
way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC
Linux kernels.

Mike Moreton for his various Java patches.

David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements, and for the initial
IA-64 port.

Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in
cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider
than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support.

Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues.

Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port.

Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO
C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation.

Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3: architecture and authorship
through the first three snapshots, including implementation of locale
infrastructure, string, shadow C headers, and the initial project
documentation (DESIGN, CHECKLIST, and so forth). Later, more work on
MT-safe string and shadow headers.

Felix Natter for documentation on porting libstdc++.

Nathanael Nerode for cleaning up the configuration/build process.

NeXT, Inc. donated the front end that supports the Objective-C
language.

Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search
engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.